This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 695 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 695 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is a sanba? A) A sash used in the grito which opens the annual Sombrero Fest in Tamaulipas, Mexico and Texas USA. B) A Japanese religious chant. C) A small shrub unique to Madagascar. D) A percussion instrument played by holding it in one hand and flicking it with the other. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A percussion instrument played by holding it in one hand and flicking it with the other. 2. Which most nearly describes the position of the human spine in relation to the heart? A) Anterior. B) Ventral. C) Dorsal. D) Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dorsal. 3. A Ukrainian political satirist, later exiled, who wrote the plays "Dead Souls" and "The Government Inspector" was ..... ? A) Gogol. B) Google. C) Googol. D) Googlie. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gogol. 4. Which of these, an Irish poet and dramatist awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, served as an Irish Senator for two terms, and co-founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief in its early years? A) Eugene O'Neill. B) George Bernard Shaw. C) W B Yeats. D) Oscar Wilde. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) W B Yeats. 5. Which of these was the leader of The Merry Pranksters, a very "in" group of people who toured the USA in a bus experimenting with LSD in the 1960s? A) Ken Kesey. B) Ernest Hemingway. C) Papa John Phillips. D) Dennis Hopper. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ken Kesey. 6. In sport, what is the golden sombrero accorded to? A) Bowling out every batter in a cricketing over. B) Striking out six times in a baseball game. C) Striking out four times in a baseball game. D) Losing in a boxing match but still receiving a larger purse than the winner. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Striking out four times in a baseball game. 7. The Matterhorn is on the border between which two countries? A) Spain and Portugal. B) Switzerland and Italy. C) Chile and Argentina. D) Canada and the USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Switzerland and Italy. 8. What is the regulation space in a croquet hoop? A) 1/32" (0.8mm) wider than the largest ball used in a game. B) 1/32" (0.8mm) on each side of the largest ball used in a game. C) 2mm wider than the average size of used in a game. D) 3mm wider than the average size of used in a game. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1/32" (0.8mm) wider than the largest ball used in a game. 9. Who raised the massive runestones known as the Jelling Stones, in Denmark? A) King Gorm the Old and his son King Harald Bluetooth. B) King Sweyn I Forkbeard. C) King Cnut the Great. D) Hrothgar, king of the Danes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) King Gorm the Old and his son King Harald Bluetooth. 10. When an animal, insect, fish, crustacean, snail or amphibian aestivates what is it doing? A) Migrating to better feeding areas during hot and dry times. B) Waking up after hibernation. C) Entering a state of inactivity and a lowered metabolic rate during hot and dry times. D) Altering its feeding patterns in response to temperature change. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Entering a state of inactivity and a lowered metabolic rate during hot and dry times. 11. What name is given to the external set of floral leaves or sepals in a flower? A) Pistils. B) Stamen. C) Pollen. D) Calyx. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Calyx. 12. What was the last dynasty of emperors in China, on the throne when China became a republic in 1912? A) Ming. B) Quing. C) Yuan. D) Song. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quing. 13. What was Sweeney Todd's occupation in the Stephen Sondheim musical? A) Barber. B) Doctor. C) Motor mechanic. D) Trapeze artist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Barber. 14. A cheroot is a type of what? A) Cigar. B) Deer. C) Revolver. D) Paint. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cigar. 15. Who, as the world's oldest person at the time according to the Guinness Book of records, died in January 2009? A) Rip van Winkle. B) Maria Magdalena. C) Gartfida Baines. D) Maria de Jesus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Maria de Jesus. 16. Julie Burchill, Peter Arnett, P J O'Rourke and John Pilger are associated with which activity? A) Show jumping. B) Journalism. C) Swimming. D) Architecture. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Journalism. 17. What name was given by the Greeks to cave dwellers who supposedly lived in the Caucasus or on the banks of the Red Sea? A) Dagoes. B) Troglodytes. C) Fledermaus. D) Caucasians. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Troglodytes. 18. Which country became a self-governing state within the British Empire in 1959, declared independence from Britain, joining the Federation of Malaysia in 1963, and left the federation on 9 August 1965? A) Sarawak. B) Sabah. C) Singapore. D) Malaya. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Singapore. 19. Maddy Prior and Tim Hart were founding members of which English folk rock group in 1969? A) Fleetwood Mac. B) Jethro Tull. C) Steeleye Span. D) The Foo Fighters. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Steeleye Span. 20. What happened to Napoleon immediately before he was sent to prison on the island of Elba in 1814? A) He was forced to abdicate as Emperor. B) He was defeated in battle. C) He was caught emptying the French Treasury. D) Several of the rulers in his sphere of influence died or were deposed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was forced to abdicate as Emperor. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGeneral QuizzesGeneral Knowledge Quiz 1General Knowledge Quiz 2General Knowledge Quiz 3General Knowledge Quiz 4General Knowledge Quiz 5General Knowledge Quiz 6General Knowledge Quiz 7General Knowledge Quiz 8General Knowledge Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books